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Returning to my pages' front once

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  • Title: Returning to my pages' front once
  • Date: Between 1871 and 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00088
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This manuscript is a draft of lines in "Out from Behind This Mask," a poem published first in the New York Tribune on February 19, 1876. This manuscript was probably written in the early to mid-1870s, after the creation of the photograph upon which "Out from Behind This Mask" is based and before publication of the poem in the Tribune.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Returning to my pages' front once." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.00088.xml (TEI)

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Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] (Returning to my pages' front once  
 more, resuming all, Songs, sorrows, tragedies, with stalwart  
 joys—O heaven! The passionate, teeming play this curtain  
 hid!) A glance look—a flashing token of my‑  
 self—to future time. I launch to To yYou, whoe'er you  
 are, I launch, through space  
 revolving, These burin'd eyes—this globe head & face. These convolutions, miniature of all   [begin leaf 1 verso] H. 6
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